Squadron/Signal Publications, 1999. — 50 p. — (Warships No. 12). During World War II, U.S. Navy light cruisers were jacks-of-all trades but were also often forced to take on the role of heavy cruisers due to the warship losses incurred at Pearl Harbor. Al Adcock looks at the six classes of light cruisers that saw action in this nicely done Squadron/Signal publication from...
Shipsresearch, 1981, Melbourne, FL, 57 p., 1st edition ...one of a monograph series that examines obscure and scattered evidence of the configuration history of the United States Frigate CONSTITUTION
Merriam Press Monograph No. M-50, Bennington, VT, 1988. 42 pgs. The first submarine mines, or the torpedo as it was called, is a litany of American names - Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Moses Shaw, and Samuel Colt. But it was not until the 19th century that electrically-fired mines were developed. This book traces their history from the days of wooden sailing ships to the...
Little Brown and Company, 2012. — 576 p. How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power. Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 352 p. This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history. The period from 1775 to 1850 was a trying time for the infant navy, a time when much was demanded of individual officers. New in paperback, this book focuses not only on battles and ships but on the colorful men, such as Oliver Hazard Perry...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 480 p. This superb collection of biographical essays tells the story of the U.S. Navy through the lives of the officers who forged its traditions. The essayists are leading naval historians who assess the careers of these men and their impact on the naval service, from the Continental Navy of the American Revolution to the nuclear Navy of the Cold...
University Press of Florida, 2009. — 427 p. In this narrative, William Braisted — an admiral's son who actually lived in China during his father's tour of duty with the Navy at this time--is both historian and a witness with special insight.
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 561 p. Regarded as the standard biography of World War II U.S. Naval hero Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886-1969), this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and...
Naval Institute Press, 1990. — 228 p. — ISBN: 0870210041. The book covers some 150 vessels, their hull design and construction, rig, engines, armament, and performance under sail as well as steam.
Naval Institute Press, 1993. — 179 p. — ISBN: 0870215868. Every U.S. Navy ironclad-oceangoing and riverine-from monitors to casemate riverboats, with descriptions of their Civil War combat and operational roles, failures as well as successes is included.
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 320 p. This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information found in secretly kept war diaries...
Basic Books, 2011. — 528 p. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America’s prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open oceanbut America’s war fleet, only twenty ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed to...
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989. – 416 p. Common Denominators. Submarines. Thresher. Surface Ships — First Battles. Surface Ships — The Alliance with Congress. Surface Ships — Legislating Nuclear Power into the Fleet. Technology and Diplomacy: The Multilateral Force. Shippingport. The Devil Is in the Details. Independence and Control. Discipline of Technology....
Onyx Press, 1997. — 312 p. Featuring eight pages of photographs, a real-life version of The Hunt for Red October recounts a U.S. submarine's perilous secret mission to find a downed Soviet nuclear submarine carrying the Soviet Union's secret code books.
Naval War College Press, 2007. — 138 p. — (Newport Papers). The powerful underwater earthquake that occurred off the coast of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 generated the most destructive tsunami ever recorded, drowning more than 150,000 people without warning in exposed littoral areas from Indonesia to South Africa. The destruction was particularly severe in the Aceh Province of...
Naval War College Press, 2013. - 211 p. - (Newport Papers). Military intervention always has been and always will be an important part of foreign policy, a tool to further national interests and influence world events. Many scholars have tried to explain the intervention behavior of states in crises, conflicts, and wars. When and why do states intervene, and what are reasons...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2001. - 49 p. There were 11 different classes of Heavy Cruisers created by the US before/during WW 2. Part 1 covers the first four. An excellent blend of the history of US heavy cruisers, development of each class and what makes one different from the other. The B&W photos help show the gun positions, the lines of each class and there are two pages...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2001. - 52 p. There were 11 different classes of Heavy Cruisers created by the US before/during WW 2. Part 2 covers the the last seven. An excellent blend of the history of US heavy cruisers, development of each class and what makes one different from the other. The B&W photos help show the gun positions, the lines of each class and there are two...
Naval War College Press, 2004. - 334 p. - (Newport Papers). Our pleasure in publishing John Hattendorf's Newport Paper on maritime strategy arises from several sources. The Naval War College Press is pleased to republish and make more broadly available an essay that had become a standard reference work for those few fortunate enough to be both cleared for and fascinated by the...
Naval War College Press, 1994. — 419 p. This book consisted of large essays had its origin in a two and a half-day joint Yale-Naval War College conference held in New Haven, Connecticut, at the invitation of Professor Paul M. Kennedy. This conference was limited by time and resources to focussing on the Naval and Maritime History of only eight countries: Canada, France,...
Naval War College Press, 2006. - 288 p. The decade of the 1990s represents a distinctive period in American naval strategic thinking. Bounded on one side by the end of the Cold War in 1989-1991 and on the other by the beginning of the era of the global war on terrorism after 11 September 2001, these were years in which the U.S. Navy of the 1990s found itself faced with a...
Naval War College Press, 2007. — 158 p. — (Newport Papers). This work is part of a four-volume set of studies within the Naval War College Press’s Newport Paper's monograph series. A broad introduction to the history of strategic and doctrinal thinking within the U.S. Navy in the period between 1970 and 2000 is found in these Newport Papers; it may be useful to read them in the...
Smithsonian, 2007. — 384 p. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William...
Naval War College Press, 2004. — 291 p. Memoirs as sources fill an important gap in the historical record. They tell us how an individual lived, what he did, and what he thought about how he lived and what he did. Such are the memoirs of Henry Kent Hewitt (1887-1972), Admiral in the United States Navy, whose active duty career spanned the first fifty years of the twentieth...
Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. – 493 p. Traces growth of U.S. Navy's nuclear fleet from earliest beginnings to 1962 when twenty-seven submarines and three surface ships were in operation. Focuses on Admiral Hyman G. Rickover as the driving force who convinced the Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission to support the project and who then shepherded it to...
Bantam Books, 2011. — 516 p. Draws on interviews with veterans and primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal (in 1942) as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and Marines new approaches to warfare.
Bantam Books, 2007. — 544 p. The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force...
Bantam, 2016. — 602 p. Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, an unprecedented account of the monumental Pacific War campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its power and supremacy and established the foundation for America as the dominant global superpower, from theNew York Times bestselling author cited as "doing for the Navy...
Newport: Weapon Systems Department, 1978. — 144 p. This report covers the growth/development of the "auto-mobile" or self-propelled torpedo in the U.S. Navy from torpedo inception in Europe by Robert Whitehead in 1866 up to and including Torpedo Mk 48 of 1978. Part I is a narrative of the historical aspects of the evolution, while part II contains illustrations and...
Potomac Books, 2015. — 387 p. In The Search for the Japanese Fleet, David W. Jourdan, one of the world’s experts in undersea exploration, reconstructs the critical role one submarine played in the Battle of Midway, considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire during this battle was one of the oldest boats in the navy, USS Nautilus....
US Naval Institute Press, 2008. — 263 p. Agents of Innovation examines the influence of the General Board of the Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II. The General Board, a formal body established by the Secretary of the Navy to advise him on both strategic matters with respect to the fleet, served as the organizational nexus for the...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 308 p. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy knew it would need vital information from the Pacific. Captain Milton ‘Mary’ Miles journeyed to China to set up weather stations and monitor the Chinese coastline — and to spy on the Japanese. After a meeting and a handshake agreement with Chiang Kai-shek's spymaster, General Dai Lі, the...
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1990. — 256 p. ISBN13: 978-0851775197. This is the first in a series that covers all Allied MTB's, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers used in World War II. Each vessel is described in full and accompanied by photographs, line illustrations and plans.
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1993. — 256 p. ISBN13: 978-0851776026. This second of three volumes covers 16 Vosper MTB designs, and the US 70-foot, 77-foot and 80-foot ELCO designs. US-built Vosper designs supplied under lease-lend are also covered, while weapons systems and machinery are dealt with in detail.
Cooper Square Press, 2000. — 336 p. On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the U. S. Navy left the crew in shark-infested waters for four days, and why only a fraction...
Naval War College Press, 2006. - 194 p. - (Newport Papers). Reposturing the Force: U.S. Overseas Presence in the Twenty-first Century it is primary aim is to provide a snapshot of a process - the ongoing reconfiguration of America's foreign military "footprint" abroad--that is likely to prove of the most fundamental importance for the long-term security of the United States,...
US Naval Institute Press, 2006. — 638 p. An abundance of new evidence demanded this reevaluation of Naval flagman Frank Jack Fletcher (1885-1973), the "black shoe" Admiral, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface ship officer in contrast to a "brown shoe" naval aviator--Fletcher led the carrier forces that won against all odds at Coral Sea,...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 624 p. From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers though the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picking up the story after Midway, the author presents a scrupulously accurate account of what happened, describing in rich detail the actual...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 265 p. On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese navies met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A strategic victory for the U.S. in spite of the loss of the carrier Lexington, the destroyer Sims and the fleet oiler Neosho, the battle blunted the Japanese drive on Port...
New York: Appleton Press, 1897. — 135 p. In preparing this brief sketch of the most celebrated of our naval heroes, the author has been aided by the very full and valuable biography published in 1878 by his son, Mr. Loyall Farragut, who has also kindly supplied for this work many additional details of interest from the Admiral's journals and correspondence, and from other...
DoDo Press, 2008. — 268 p. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I. Despite his success in the Navy, his skills in actual command of a ship were not exemplary, and a number of vessels...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — 352 p. Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from...
NAL Caliber, 2014. — 544 p. Five ships against hundreds — the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen. America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution — or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England’s King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American...
Westholme Publishing, 2011. — 620 p. Finalist for the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's Award for Excellence in Naval Literature "Ashore as well as at sea, Tim McGrath paints an informative, engaging and highly entertaining portrait of this worthy but neglected hero of American independence. The author shows us a man who was a magnificent embodiment of common sense--and...
Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1944. — 578 p. NAVPERS 16116. May 1944 dated manual prepared by the Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Division on the ordnance used by the USN and gunnery techniques and practices.
McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010. — 376 p. In the opening months of 1781, General George Washington feared his army would fail to survive another campaign season. The spring and summer only served to reinforce his despair, but in late summer the changing circumstances of war presented a once-in-a-war opportunity for a French armada to hold off the mighty British navy while his own...
Da Capo Press, 2001. — 409 p. — ISBN: 0306810697. Seventy-one American destroyers went down during World War II, and this meticulously researched book describes the history of each — from launch to the ship's final hours. Through these stories we travel from the stormy North Atlantic to the calm Mediterranean, from the East Coast of the United States to the vast reaches of the...
Dutton Caliber, 2016. — 388 p. The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II — the greatest naval battle in history. As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey’s unwitting American armada. It was the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 252 p. Now for the Contest tells the story of the Civil War at sea in the context of three campaigns: the blockade of the southern coast, the raiding of Union commerce, and the projection of power ashore. The Civil War at sea was profoundly influenced by innovation and asymmetry — both sides embraced innovation, but differences in their...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 496 p. An exceptional piece of scholarship. Rossano clearly points out that military organizations in general, and a naval air force in particular, are built from the ground up and not the other way around. While we celebrate the exploits of the pilots, Rossano reminds us that there were myriad mechanics, constructors, paymasters, and even...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 1591147603. The book examines all of the nearly 500 of the Navy's unique miscellaneous auxiliary (AG) and unclassified miscellaneous (IX) vessels. It provides individual histories, specifications and illustrations for more than 40 of these ships in 32 chapters, as well as concise directory listings for another 400 vessels. The...
Naval Historical Center, 2007. — 144 p. This illustrated history covers the history of the U.S. Navy in the Middle East. America’s interests in the Middle East, southwest Asia, and eastern Africa date almost to the founding of the nation. Since World War II, the Navy has been the first line of defense for these interests. From the establishment of the Middle East Force (MEF) in...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1995. - 51 p. ISBN: 0897473361 "The USS Nicholas (DD-449) was commissioned on 4 June 1942, a significant event for the US Navy. It marked the service entry of the first of 175 Fletcher Class destroyers. These destroyers represented a landmark design that would serve with distinction through WWII.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. — 208 p. By October, 1944, Japan's once-mighty naval power was almost extinguished. But in one last desperate bid, the Japanese gathered and combined their forces to defeat the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy. With more ships engaged than there were even in the gargantuan World War I Battle of Jutland-and 200,000 men fighting on the sea...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 400 p. In a high-tempo series of operations throughout the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean, a small American fleet of destroyers and other naval vessels responded ably to several major international crises including the last days of the Russian Revolution and the 1920-1922 Turkish Nationalist Revolution. Officers and men of the...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (U.S. Navy Warship Series). I good reference source for early navy ships of the US Civil War Navy (during 1855-1883). As a shelf book i prize it highly I am familiar with Paul Silverstone for the naval Photos obtained from him in earlier years.
Taylor and Francis Group, 2012. — 445 p. — (U.S. Navy Warship Series). The Navy of World War II, 1922-1946 comprehensively covers the vessels that defined this momentous 24-year period in U.S. naval history. Beginning with the lean, pared-down navy created by the treaty at the Washington Naval Conference, and ending with the massive, awe-inspiring fleets that led the Allies to...
Routledge, 2006. — 292 p. — (U.S. Navy Warships). The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the "New Navy" and ordered removal of all obsolete ships. All US Navy ships since that time have stemmed from these first three cruisers. The numbering system in effect since 1920 was...
New York, Routledge, 2006. — 100 p. — (The U.S. Navy Warship Series). The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854, the first volume in the definitive five-volume U.S. Navy Warship series, comprehensively details all aspects of the ships that sailed in the nascent stages of the U.S. Navy. From its beginnings as battlers of Barbary Coast pirates, to challenging the awesome might of the Royal...
Goose Lane Editions, 2012. — 128 p. As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small warships -- the Provincial sloop Brunswicker,...
University Press of Florida, 2007. — 763 p. Crisis at Sea is the first comprehensive history of the United States Navy in European waters during World War I. Drawing on vast American, British, German, French, and Italian sources, the author presents the U.S. Naval experience as America moved into the modern age of naval warfare. Not limited to an operations account of naval...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 168 p. This fast-paced narrative charts the history of the US Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British during the Revolution, the Barbary Wars, and the arduous conquest...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 400 p. From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare--and the course of the American nation. Acclaimed military historian Craig...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 445 p. Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "little about ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by prize-winning historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians...
W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. — 592 p. Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders — particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams — debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 364 p. The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the...
Naval War College Press, 1980. — 214 p. This essays describes about fraternal society is the Officers Corps of the U.S. Navy between two World Wars. From 1919 to 1941, the Navy, indoctrinated at Newport, formed the institutional patterns of kinship between two paradigms: what Frederick Merk called "Manifest Destiny and Mission."
Children's Press, 2007. — 56 p. Sea Fighter (FSF-1) is an experimental littoral combat ship under development (2005–2008) by the United States Navy. Its hull is of a small-waterplane-area twin-hull (SWATH) design, provides exceptional stability, even on rough seas. The ship can operate in both blue and littoral waters. For power, it can use either its dual gas-turbine engines...
Routledge Group, 2009. — 190 p. This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR) during 1890-2005, highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of...
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